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U ITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. HASTINGS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CU LTIVATOR..

SPECIFIGATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,162, dated Ju1 y 18, 1899. Application filed February 18, 1899. $eria1N0. 706,028. (No model.)

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Be itknown that I, Joan G. HASTINGS, a citizenof'the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State. of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefullmprovementsin Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention consists in certain improvements in that class, of agricultural implements known as fcultivatorsj whereby various advantagesare secured. 1 A machine embodying Iny'present invention will be first fully described, and the novel features thereof then pointed out in the claims. Y

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a cultivator embodying my present invention, showing the parts in the position they occupy when ready forfuse with a driver mounted thereon; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a side elevation'thereof, showing its various parts in the position occupied thereby when the driver has dismounted and when the plows have been raised. free from the ground, as when arranged for storage or trans portation; Fig.4, a rear elevation with the parts in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. 5, a rear viewof the clevis and the immediately adjacent parts, on an enlarged scale, as seen from the dotted line 5 5 in Fig. 2; Fig. 6, a sectional view of the same as seen from the dotted line 6 6 in Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a sectional view of the'device for supporting the plow-beams from the runner as seen from the dotted line 7 7 in Fig. 2 and Fig. 8, a detail View, on an enlarged scale, similar to the upper portion of Fig. 3, some portions,'however, being broken away for purposes of 1 clearness.

In detail an arched axle is mounted on ordinaryrwheels 2 and in turn carries the frame composed of the longitudinal bars 3 and the transverse bars 4, 5, and 6, upon the latter of which a seat 7 ispreferably placed. Upon the forward ends of the frame-bars 3 are suitable bearings carrying a transverse rod or shaft 8, and upon this are the clevis structures. Said structures are composed, as best shownin Fig. 5, of a central bar 9, to which by means of suitable holes therein, as shown in Fig. 6, the singletrees are commonly to be attached, and twobars 10, to which the plowbeams 11 are to be secured by pivots 12.

The bars 10 are brace-like inform, as shown, and

thus aid in making a stiif structure not liable.

to be swayed-or bent sidewise. I They are secured in position upon the rod 8 by collars 13,

which are secured in place preferably by setscrews 14 and are adjustable from one position to another, as may be desired, and by this means the clevis structures and the plows are adjusted toward or from each other, according to the requirements of the work to be done. The plow-beams 11 carry the plows 15, of which there may be any appropriate number desired. I have shown three plows on each plow-beam.

Extending upwardly fromthe frame sides 3 are pillars or-standards'lfi, to the upper ends of which are pivoted swinging arms 17 and from the ends of these swinging arms rods 18 extend down and connect with the plow-beams. From the outer ends of the arms 17 also extend chains or ropes 19, and these in turn are connected to springs 20, the lower ends of which are attached to the frame sides 3. When the plows are in operation, the position of these parts is as indicated in Fig. 2, with the springs distended and the bar 18 in its lowermost position. When, however, it is desired to raise the plow-beams free from the ground, itis done by swinging the arms 17 over into the postion shown in Fig. 3, and they are held to such position by the tension of the spring 20, as will be readily understood. When in this position but little strain comes upon the spring, as the pull on the rods 18 is exerted in a line substantially transverse the pivots 21, which carry .the arms 17. The manipulation of these parts is 'efiected by means of the handle 22 on the rod 18. Ears 23 are formed on the pivoted arms 17 and have suitable perforations, as shown, through which a pin 1) may be inserted behind t-he rod 18 when the latter is raised, thus locking the parts together and preventing a return from the position shown in Fig. 3 to the positionshown in Fig. 2 until said pin is removed.

Runner-bars 24 are secured by suitable pivot-bolts 25' to the frame parts Sand extend rearwardly and downwardly to the ground and bear shoes or runners 26 on their rear lower ends. Extending from the runnerbeams 24 to the frame sides 3 are telescopic structures composed of a tubular portion 27, a preferably forked portion 28, the shank of which enters said tubular portion,and a spring 29, coiled about the shank and interposed between the forked head and the lower end of the tubular portion 27. struction of the structure in question are best shown in Fig. 7, while its arrangement and use are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Thelower end of the tubular telescopic bar 27 is'slitted on one side, and the shank of the part 28 is held and guided in position by a pin 07,, extending out therefrom into said slit, and the extreme lower end of the bar 27 is thickened and strengthened by means of acollarcthereon, against which the spring 29 immediately rider.

rests. As will be readily seen, the frame of the machine is supported from the shoe through the structure which has just been described, and the spring interposed in said structure gives the support a considerable degree of elasticity,which is both of considerable advantage to the operation of the machine and at the same time serves the usual purposes of a springsupport to the seat for the These telescopic and yielding connections also prevent the cultivator when the shoes strike obstructions from being tipped or lifted and the plows thus disarranged or thrown out of the ground, as the springs 29 will yield under the force of the blow and permit the shoes to pass over such obstructions with but slight effect on any of the other parts.

My improved cultivator is so arranged as that it can be shifted to be used equally well when a rider is mounted thereon as when the rider is dismounted. The positions of the parts in the former case are shown in Fig. 2 and in the latter casein Fig. 3. As shown in Fig. 2, when a rider is mounted on the cultivator the arch of the axle 1 should be substantially upright, and the arrangement is such that the weight of the rider when the axle is in this position substantially counterbalances that portion of the structure in front of the axle so far as such counterbalancing is necessary. Then, however, the weight of the rider is removed, if the same position were maintained the front of the cultivator would tip forward, throwing it out of proper position for work.

gaging with an ordinary segment 33. By

throwing these parts from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 3 the' axle-bearings carried by the wheels 2 are thrown sulliciently forward so that the rear The form and con-- I have therefore provided a lever 30, connected to the lower portion of; the axle by a link 31, said lever being controlled by an ordinary latch 32 thereon en-:

portion of the frame will sufficiently counterbalance the forward portion without the weight of the driver, as will be readily understood.

As will be readily seen by examining the drawings, especially Fig. 1,'the cross-bar (3 and seat 7 may be adjusted to any one of several positions on the side pieces 3 of the frame, thus adapting the same todrivers of different weights.

The connection between the rear portion of the plow-beam ll and the portion of the frame immediately thereabove is made by means of a chain 0 and spring 0. This connection is adapted to receive the shock of the rapidlydescending plow-beams as the bar 18 is thrown over from the position shown in Fig. 3 to the position shown in Fig. 2 and break the force of the descent. It also has a tendency to prevent the plows from entering the ground too deeply and may be regulated to serve this purpose to any extent desired.

' Having thus fully described my said inven tion,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a cultivator, of the framework, an axle and wheels supporting the same, a rod transversely extending across the front of the frame, and clevis structures adj ustably mounted on said bar, each clevis portion consistingof a central portion and two brace portions carried by said bar at the up per end and coming together at the lower end, and plow-beams connected to the lower ends of said clevises, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a cultivator, with the plow-beams and the framework thereof, and a transverse rod carried by said framework, of clevis structures or attaching devices pivotally mounted on said rod and confined between collars thereon, said collars bein g adj ustable,whereby said clevis structures can be adjusted toward and from each other, said plows being thus also adjustable as desired, substantially as set forth. 3. The combination, in a cultivator, of the axle, the wheels, the frame carried by the axle, clevises carried by the forward ends of the frame, plow-beams attached to the clevises, pillars also carried on said frame, pivoted arms carried by said pillars, rods extending down from the outer ends of said pivoted arms to said plow-beams to which they are attached, a locking device on said pivoted arms and a connection including a spring running from the outer end of said arms to points toward the forward end of the frame, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, in a cultivator, of the axle, wheels, a framework having pillars or standards thereon, plow-beams, connections running upwardly from said plow-beams and attached to swinging arms on said pillars or standards, said arms having ears thereon with perforations adapted to receive pins,whereby the connections running to the plow-beams 629,162 I Y Y .3

may be locked, and said plow-beams thus held parts 28 the shankswhereof enter said tubuto their upper position, substantially as set lar parts, and the interposed springs 29, subforth. I stantially as shown and described. 7

5. The combination, in a cultivator, with In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 15 5 the frame and the shoes, of telescopic struchand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this tures whereby the fraine is supported from 13th day of February, A. DQ1899. the shoes, said structures including springs, r l substantiallyas set forth. 7 JOHN HASTINGS 6. The combination,with the frame and the Witnesses: I 1o shoes of a cultivator, of telescopic structures CHESTER BRADFORD, composed of the tubular parts 27, the forked JAMES A. WALSH. 

